Snoop Dogg has had a peculiar relationship with the Brits: sometimes they don't let him in, sometimes he gets in trouble there, but he keeps trying to flirt with his UK fans again and again.

A while back he said he wanted to be on mainstream working-class soap opera Coronation Street. Hipper musicians (and Gary Numan) would have name-checked UK cult-comedy sensation The Mighty Boosh or even the IT Crowd, but Snoop (always the charmer of old ladies) went for the massive, popular favorite.

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